Jeff Buckley | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jeffrey Scott Buckley |
| Also known as | Scott "Scottie" Moorhead |
| Born | November 17, 1966 Anaheim, California, U.S. |
| Origin | East Village, Manhattan, New York |
| Died | May 29, 1997 (aged 30) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Discography | Jeff Buckley discography |
| Years active | 1990–1997 |
| Labels | Columbia |
| Website | jeffbuckley |
Jeffrey Scott Buckley (raised as Scott Moorhead;[1] November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997) was an American singer-songwriter. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s performing at venues in East Village, Manhattan such as Sin-é. After rebuffing interest from record labels[2] and Herb Cohen—the manager of his father, singer Tim Buckley[3]—he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and released his only studio album, Grace, in 1994.
Buckley toured extensively to promote Grace, including concerts in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Australia. In 1996, they made sporadic attempts to record Buckley's second album, My Sweetheart the Drunk, in New York City with Tom Verlaine as the producer. In 1997, Buckley moved to Memphis, Tennessee, to resume work, recording four-track demos and playing weekly solo shows in downtown Memphis.
On May 29, 1997, while awaiting the arrival of his band from New York, Buckley drowned while swimming in the Wolf River, a tributary of the Mississippi. Posthumous releases include a four-track collection of demos and studio recordings of My Sweetheart the Drunk, reissues of Grace, and the Live at Sin-é EP. In 2008, his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", became Buckley's first number one on Billboard's Hot Digital Songs and reached number two in the UK singles chart. Rolling Stone included Grace in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time[4] and included Buckley in its list of the greatest singers.[5]
- ^ Browne 2001, p. 58.
- ^ Browne 2001, pp. 171–173.
- ^ Browne 2001, p. 107.
- ^ "The Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 18 November 2003. Archived from the original on 30 April 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
- ^ "Jeff Buckley". Rolling Stone. 2 December 2010.